The Lenovo Z500 with GT 740m thread

[tanmaymohan]

Yeah
Lappy is working good. I have also written a review on my site.

P.S. : I got grid2 and total war rome II free on steam exclusively by lenovo

 

[vinyasmusic]

^^^ well how long has this problem started?? have you updated any drivers recently or any system software?? coz my disk usage is pretty much always 0-2% when browsing net.
and the hdd is located just on the right side of the touchpad , touch and see if that area is unusually warm.

It isnt always warm but does get warm at times
Just cannot fathom why the usage is 100% It stays there for a half n hour or so then goes normal for few hours then poops back up again
The system gets sluggish so its easy so spot when the usage has gone high

 

[rohitshubham]

It isnt always warm but does get warm at times
Just cannot fathom why the usage is 100% It stays there for a half n hour or so then goes normal for few hours then poops back up again
The system gets sluggish so its easy so spot when the usage has gone high

so, the task manager isn't showing any process which is hogging up the hdd.
Maybe the 100% usage is triggered by some interrupt routine ... it might be due to anti-virus which starts to scan up the system periodically.

 

[tanmaymohan]

Do games work only when charger plugged in?

 

[seamon]

Do games work only when charger plugged in?

You can play on battery but with reduced performance. This is because the battery is not powerful enough to fully power the GPU and CPU simultaneously.

 

[tanmaymohan]

Hmm.. Ok
I did the same while bitcoin mining without charger : 6mhash
With charger 43mhash

But does this happen with all kinds of gaming laptops?

 

[seamon]

Hmm.. Ok
I did the same while bitcoin mining without charger : 6mhash
With charger 43mhash

But does this happen with all kinds of gaming laptops?

AMD GPUs are better at mining.
I get upto 100(I think) MHash.
With 2 GT 650m OC I get 72 Mhash.

 

[savvy]

Those who updated to windows 8.1 : do you guys face any problem like drivers etc ? I am planning to upgrade but lenovo's official site says that it's better not to upgrade now because some driver issues have not been fixed yet...

 

[prithvikg]

i'm facing an issue with my laptop screen brightness after i upgraded to 8.1 it's set permanently as dim and i am not able to increase it. i have a z500.

 

[tanmaymohan]

^Update your Intel drivers

 

[savvy]

i'm facing an issue with my laptop screen brightness after i upgraded to 8.1 it's set permanentlywnloaded fw as dim and i am not able to increase it. i have a z500.

So except that everything is working fine for you ?? Because in lenovo official site, there isn't all drivers listed... You have used windows 8 drivers or downloaded from elsewhere ??

 

[savvy]

^Update your Intel drivers

I rather found that updating the drivers caused that problem and when i downgrade everything works fine... Which version of windows are you using ??

 

[tanmaymohan]

Windows 8.1
I also encountered this issue on z510 on updating NVIDIA driver but I reinstalled Intel HD too and from then no issues till now.

 

[savvy]

And from where did you get the drivers ??

 

[tanmaymohan]

Provided by Lenovo on a separate partition

 

[prithvikg]

So except that everything is working fine for you ?? Because in lenovo official site, there isn't all drivers listed... You have used windows 8 drivers or downloaded from elsewhere ??

my device manager is showing some issue with bluetooth. but other than that no issues.. just the brigtnss. still have to download the drivers for it.

 

[vinyasmusic]

Guys facing a grave issue here
My laptop adapter got burnt (electrical) recently. So I filed a complaint in customer care for replacement, after a few days they reverted back saying the serial number for the laptop and charger are a mismatch (WTF?)
I checked with all my friends who had a similar charger about it but none of them had taken mine. Now they say it cannot be replaced as it is not mine :/ Help me on this

 

[rohitshubham]

Guys facing a grave issue here
My laptop adapter got burnt (electrical) recently. So I filed a complaint in customer care for replacement, after a few days they reverted back saying the serial number for the laptop and charger are a mismatch (WTF?)
I checked with all my friends who had a similar charger about it but none of them had taken mine. Now they say it cannot be replaced as it is not mine :/ Help me on this

i guess all you can do is to press that this is the exact same charger that i was provided with and the fault is from the service side... also look up for the purchase bills if they mention the charger's serial number

 

[farlaks]

touchpad coating peeling off, any help?

 

[rohitshubham]

^^ Well ignore it... it started to peel off on mine too but i just ignored it and IDK but now its firm enough...